Abstract

Infrared-infrared double resonance spectroscopy is used as a probe of the vibrational dynamics of cyanoacetylene in helium droplets. The nu1 C-H stretching vibration of cyanoacetylene is excited by an infrared laser and subsequent vibrational relaxation results in the evaporation of approximately 660 helium atoms from the droplet. A second probe laser is then used to excite the same C-H stretching vibration downstream of the pump, corresponding to a time delay of approximately 175 micros. The hole burned by the pump laser is narrower than the single resonance spectrum, owing to the fact that the latter is inhomogeneously broadened by the droplet size distribution. The line width of the hole is characteristic of another broadening source that depends strongly on droplet size.

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